How is it brave if there is no risk of harm? You are not allowed to whack kickers any more, it's an automatic penalty if not a sin bin.
Is Luke brooks the piece we’ve been missing
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You can still whack a kicker if you get there early enough. The kickers know this and generally kick/pass nice and early.
Brook's left foot should complement DCE's right foot.
Pity we don't have Michael Robertson's middle foot anymore or we would have all directions on the field covered!
The ole helicopter kicking strategy. Kick from anywhere too anywhere.
@Will on the hill I will politely correct you as I think this method on goes in fore directions!
Brooks could be a good fit for us. I believe we need a running half to complement DCE. I’m looking forward to see how things go in 2024.
Brooks has left the Tigers to escape the pressure and yet every second Manly article is about how good Brooks is going to be at the Eagles. Feels like more pressure.
We have a very tough start to the season and Brooks will take time to gel with DCE and the rest of the team. I hope he is given time before he becomes the new whipping boy.
We have a very tough start to the season and Brooks will take time to gel with DCE and the rest of the team. I hope he is given time before he becomes the new whipping boy.
Cleary and Reynolds didn't do this in the GF, I can't even think of a game where they did.
Does it even make sense? If a half risks getting hit while kicking on the 5th then he is risking ruining the set, possibly in a disastrous way if there's a charge-down or the ball goes out on the full, etc. Let alone if he's the main man and gets injured
Sounds like you are talking more about passing? I think we are talking about kicking for distance at the end of a set.
Ps can anyone remember the last half that was hurt while kicking and the ref deemed the hit perfectly legal? I can't!
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Its been said before but Brooks now has strike all around him. At the tigers, there was sweet FA for a long time.
Imagine if and when we are firing and he has the likes of Turbo, Koula, Saab, Hamole and Garrick firing. It's a hell of a better work environment than from where he came.
Imagine if and when we are firing and he has the likes of Turbo, Koula, Saab, Hamole and Garrick firing. It's a hell of a better work environment than from where he came.
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Our right side is looking epic, DCE, Mole, Koula, Saab…
It’s the left side that has a lot of unknowns, Brooks, Schuster, Garrick, Parker/Tui/Talau…
On paper that left side could be red hot but it could also be a shocker.
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Fair point and more so with Brooks and Shu in defence to get the early reads right but then on D C E "s and Haumole 's side , has tended to be a couple of problems on occasions also
Garrick seems to defend more assuredly at centre then at full back . Shu and Brooks , well here is hoping .
Attack or the potential for some good attack should be a strong point on both sides , establishing a good defensive pattern , a bit more challenging
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Time will tell. But any half is one more player than we had in 23. The 👠 might have walked onto the playing field many times, in the back half of the year, but he done SFA in every one of em.
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Don't forget Tommy if fit will light that side up just like in 2021.
Koula might start on the left? He'd probably be just as effective there.
In fact Koula should probably be given some sort of a roving commission. Bit like Broncos swapped Staggs and Farnworth mid-game a few times.
Koula has the speed to pop up anywhere at any time, I'm sure Seibold is working on some plan to exploit that ability (I say confidently) 🙂
Yeah, passing and kicking in the oppositions 20 (mostly grubbers). Agree that no one really does it when kicking for distance.
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Yeah.
Daley has some weaknesses to his game, although having said that, he is genuine Australian Test halfback quality, and has been one of the best for the last dozen+ years.
Not quite as good as Johns, or Thurston, or even Cronk probably, even though he has at least as many skills as those. There was something in their approach to the game that put them on a different level.
As for Cleary, he's now being spoken about as potentially being the greatest player of all time, and after his grand final heroics I wouldn't discount that.
I suspect some fans may appreciate DCE more after he's retired. Won't be easy to replace.
Meanwhile I think the partnership with Brooks should be pretty exciting.
We do have exciting high expectations at our Legendary Manly club
And so we should !
same right side as last year that was pretty underwhelming considering the talent. At one point koula had a thread, run koula run due to lack of penetration on the right hand side. They go through the motions a fair bit out there. Huamole and brute force seems to be the only play once turbo is in the sheds
Then koula gets moved to fullback, or away from the right side if your cheeky like me, and he is the saviour we have all been waiting for.
i understand fullbacks get better opportunities, the ball he got inevitably in both positions was the key and he got SFA on the right. Got to call it for what it is
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